Brechin World War II Memorial - Angus, Scotland
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Bronze plaque attached to a wall behind the First World War memorial in the public park of the Angus town of Brechin commemorating those lost during World War II.
Waymark Code: WM19RGD
Location: Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/05/2024
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This Second World War memorial can be found behind the Great War Memorial in Brechin Park, the public park that lies towards the north-western part of the Angus town in eastern Scotland.
The memorial was dedicated on April 19th 1953 and features a wall with a bronze plaque affixed containing 59 names from the town and parish lost during WWII. The inscription at the top reads as follows:
'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945'
Names:
William Abercromby
George Allison
William Anderson
James Auchterlonie
George S. Ballantine
James W. Barrie
Hector Beattie
Robert G. Bowman
Frank C. Bruce
Wilfred Buchan
James Chalmers
John Christie
William S. Christie
Harold Cooper
David Cowieson
David Craig
William Cross
Bain Dalgetty
Ramsay D .Davis
James S. Edwards
J. Guthrie Ferguson
Gilbert S. Forbes
John N. Greig
Duncan Guthrie
James S. Hogg
John W. Hogg
John Hutchison
Harry Hutton
Alexander Jamie
James R. Knowles
Francis G. Leiper
Alfred Mackie
William Marshall
Andrew Middleton
Robert F. Milne
William I. Milne
James Mitchell
Stanley S. Moug
Andrew Moyes
John T. McGhee
Louis McMillan
Robert Norman
Arthur Petrie
David S. Potter
Alexander Reid
Joseph T. Reid
Ronald M. Rogers
D. Noel Scott
Ronald C. Scott
Alexander M. Smith
Charles Smith
James Smith
James Smith
William Taylor
Jack Walker
Alfred Whammond
Allan Young
John C. McCallum
The further inscription underneath reads:
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"
Two further panels were added on either side containing additional names from WWI & WWII, and later conflicts.